Unnatural Educator
@unnaturaleducator.bsky.social
Artist, intermittent educator, tech critic: just because you can, does not mean you should. All AI will be blocked.
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🎵 I threw the sandwich
... but I did not catch the felony 🎶
... but I did not catch the felony 🎶
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🎵 I threw the sandwich
... but I did not catch the felony 🎶
... but I did not catch the felony 🎶
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Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”
Supernatural without the original music is just...not worth the time. DVDs 4 life
November 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Supernatural without the original music is just...not worth the time. DVDs 4 life
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I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
When bad things get worse
Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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“Rather than AI being able to enhance human innovation, critical thinking, the progress of science—it’s being used to exploit our insecurities. That’s the thing about so many of these Silicon Valley tech bros. They’re essentially emotionally maladapted psychopaths.”
Speaking nothing but the truth.
Speaking nothing but the truth.
October 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
“Rather than AI being able to enhance human innovation, critical thinking, the progress of science—it’s being used to exploit our insecurities. That’s the thing about so many of these Silicon Valley tech bros. They’re essentially emotionally maladapted psychopaths.”
Speaking nothing but the truth.
Speaking nothing but the truth.
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MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs
I hope everyone has been prepping, stocking up on food, solar panels, generators, and hoarding meds...
October 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I hope everyone has been prepping, stocking up on food, solar panels, generators, and hoarding meds...
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Here’s video of the incident
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Here’s video of the incident
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A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
www.pcmag.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
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My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
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In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?
In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?
The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our art a bit more seriously
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?
Here's a crazy idea- don't use Tik Tok?
The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich | Margaret Sullivan
The TikTok deal puts even more media in the hands of the super-rich | Margaret Sullivan
Trump is clearing the way for US investors to control a wildly popular platform where millions get their news
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here's a crazy idea- don't use Tik Tok?
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This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
September 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
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You know that thing humans do where they think they’re being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can’t stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.
September 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
You know that thing humans do where they think they’re being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can’t stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.
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timeline cleanser
For anyone who hasn't, it was hilarious and joyful. And David in that kilt!
youtu.be/yUr8QyTCph8?...
youtu.be/yUr8QyTCph8?...
David Tennant performs 500 Miles by The Proclaimers with the help of a few famous faces... | BAFTA
YouTube video by BAFTA
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September 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
timeline cleanser
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He’s like Saruman but dumber.
September 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
He’s like Saruman but dumber.
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It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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The capacity for media–including mainstream, social, and online punditry–to misconstrue, exaggerate, and exacerbate current events while ignoring warnings from the past, is growing fast.
I saved this quote, from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, almost 9 years ago, less than 3 wks after T's 1st election.
I saved this quote, from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, almost 9 years ago, less than 3 wks after T's 1st election.
September 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The capacity for media–including mainstream, social, and online punditry–to misconstrue, exaggerate, and exacerbate current events while ignoring warnings from the past, is growing fast.
I saved this quote, from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, almost 9 years ago, less than 3 wks after T's 1st election.
I saved this quote, from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, almost 9 years ago, less than 3 wks after T's 1st election.
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Someone asked me to listen to the latest Hard Fork episode on AI in schools, and I tried. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/booster-shot...
The Booster Shot
A couple of weeks ago, Ed Zitron published one of his epic rants -- the kind that, as he warned newsletter readers, is probably better read on the web than via email: it’s 16,000 words long; so long t...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Someone asked me to listen to the latest Hard Fork episode on AI in schools, and I tried. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/booster-shot...
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In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.